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by miketuritzin 6y ago
Can you give an example where not using them 'inline' makes code harder to understand?
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by miketuritzin 6y ago
I love music (and am a musician), but I disagree that good music is scarce. Part of the issue here (among many others) is that music is fairly "evergreen", and certainly much more so than apps. Zillions of people are still listeni
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Drinking from the Firehose: Learning Computer Graphics Techniques/Programming(miketuritzin.com)
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by miketuritzin 6y ago
I frequently think just before committing/pushing, "Time to add some comments!" That doesn't mean the code is fully finished, but it does provide a clear point in time to add them (when needed).
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by miketuritzin 7y ago
I have a ritual of watching through my queue of Youtube videos (on many topics) when I am preparing and eating breakfast each morning. It works well. I've been able to churn through so much useful content over the years that I wouldn&#
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by miketuritzin 7y ago
I have thought about this phenomenon with regard to the internet a lot. Online it's easy to be exposed to videos and other content produced by people who are literally among the best in the world at anything. This means we start to mea
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by miketuritzin 7y ago
I have started doing this on days I go to the gym (3x per week) and anecdotally it has positive effects on how I feel mentally and physically. (And these effects have lasted after about 6 months of this practice.)
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by miketuritzin 7y ago
Reminds me of this Inigo Quilez article on experimenting with rendering using rational numbers: https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/floatingbar/floatingbar....
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by miketuritzin 7y ago
The same controller pose can correspond to different arm positions, so VR games/apps that do IK are making a guess that is generally going to be somewhat inaccurate. I do like the implementation in Lone Echo, though.
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by miketuritzin 7y ago
It's also worth noting that it's possible to "just want" something for reasons that one isn't consciously aware of (e.g., feeling physically attracted to markers of health and fertility).
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by miketuritzin 7y ago
There's nothing special about a job! If anything, I'd believe that someone who had the drive to do challenging activities on their own (and engage socially with others) is doing more for their mind and body than someone clocking i
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by miketuritzin 7y ago
What about a headset (or glasses, contacts, whatever) that can provide anything from AR-style world annotations to a full VR experience, or anything in between? I agree that AR is something you'd use all the time, like a smartphone, bu
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by miketuritzin 7y ago
Out of curiosity, what $4000 VR setup are you showing people?
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by miketuritzin 7y ago
Can vouch for this, a few years ago I broke my ankle and was on crutches. During that time I got my only non-5-star Uber ratings.
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by miketuritzin 8y ago
The same could be said even moreso about (wearable) AR - that the technology isn't there yet, especially at a price needed for mass adoption. I see VR and AR as different sides of the same coin, and I believe that Facebook does as well
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by miketuritzin 8y ago
Exactly. AR and VR are different sides of the same coin and will converge. I am certain that Facebook is investing so much into VR because of the ultimate promise of AR as a platform, not because of a belief in VR "over" AR.
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by miketuritzin 8y ago
Good point - pagerank is a query-independent signal which is harder to game, but the (very large) part of ranking that is query dependent was still very much gameable.
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by miketuritzin 8y ago
Yeah, my interpretation is that it's for situations where you would normally prefer to use a fake email (joeblow238998324@gmail.com) but can't because of the verify link.
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by miketuritzin 8y ago
I can confirm, I am living in NYC (and am mid-30s). I'm paying for the "bronze plan" of one of the cheapest insurance companies, and it is $470/mo this year.
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by miketuritzin 8y ago
That reminds me that one of the co-working space I worked at in Brooklyn had a really cheap plan where you could receive mail there and do a couple other things but not even have a desk. Perhaps look into an option like that?
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by miketuritzin 8y ago
I would agree - Shadertoy is really cool, but it fits into the category of "they did it because they could, not because they should." There are techniques used in Shadertoys that are relevant elsewhere, though the learning curve i
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by miketuritzin 8y ago
Vulkan is supposed to be the cross-platform API, but Apple isn't supporting it (and doing their own thing with Metal, as per usual). From what I've heard, Vulkan was originally "OpenGL 5" so while OpenGL continues to exi
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by miketuritzin 8y ago
You could also make the argument that opening city centers to cars should be considered carefully, and that is also true. It just happens to be the current default almost everywhere.
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by miketuritzin 8y ago
This aligns with my experience. I would bike (in SF and now NYC) but I don't because it feels too stressful and dangerous. It annoys me how entrenched car culture is and how defensive some people get about it (and the amount of anger t
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by miketuritzin 8y ago
I agreed with you until the last paragraph. Parties "should" be relaxing and fun, but what if they aren't? Focusing on how you should feel a certain way when you don't isn't helpful, whereas making adjustments to ho
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by miketuritzin 8y ago
I feel like the solution to this is to have slides without a lot of text on them, but then include what you say in the "speaker notes" section when you distribute them so that people who didn't attend the talk understand them
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by miketuritzin 8y ago
I found this out a few years ago after stripping several IKEA screws and getting incredibly frustrated. Bought a couple Pozidriv screwdrivers on Amazon, and they worked like a charm.
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by miketuritzin 9y ago
I have worked in several co-working spaces, and this is remarkably similar to my experience. The last one I was in was very loud with people making sales calls. I am currently renting a desk in a friend's small startup office, and it
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by miketuritzin 9y ago
Thanks for that link - I was aware of the Stingray (Bitsquid) development blog ( http://bitsquid.blogspot.com/ ) but didn't know about those videos.
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by miketuritzin 9y ago
To me the most interesting thing is not just a fully-simulated video but a fully-simulated interactive scene using VR or AR, and that is obviously an even bigger challenge. I don't personally think that either of these objectives are e

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